Petrosino, Giuseppe Joseph

Born: 1860 AD
Died: 1909 AD

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1860 – Born on August 30th in Salerno, Campania, Italy. Petrosino was an Italian-American detective in the New York City Police Department in the early 1900s who was assigned to investigate the Mafia, an Italian organized-crime group that was well established in the immigrant Italian community in New York.

– Petrosino was already a legend in Italy where he was called the “Italian Sherlock Holmes".

1873 – Came to New York with his family.

1883 – When he joined the Police Department, Petrosino was the city’s shortest officer, at five feet and three inches tall.